Harmful Cosmetic Products

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I found this post in the Italian JoS Forum interesting so I translated it for information :

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HARMFUL COSMETIC COMPONENTS


It is also important to pay attention to what we use on our skin. Many ingredients used to big cosmetic companies are harmful for us and for the environment. The most embarrassing fact is that those ingredients are introduced into products for child/babies too.


Also the so-called "natural" products that you can easily find in herbal shops, are really hiding highly irritant ingredients, that on the long run may cause the skin to be more and more sensible and WEAKEN OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM.


The well known "oil" is natural, however it is polluting and cancer-causing for us. So beware the word "natural" that many companies are proposing to us. Packing is nice, thet have flowers' and plats' pictures, but in truth they contain a very small part of these wonderful extracts that are so good for us, so what they contain for the remaining part? They are also good at writing "without SLS, Colorant, mineral Oils (derived from petroleum) but then they contain aggressive and irritant emulsifying substances and moisteners.


In recent times some private companies popped up, releasing certifications for guarantee of a product safety, for us and for the environment.
In Italy we do have ICEA.
There are also smaller companies producing handmade/artisan products who do not want and cannot invest money in this kind of certifications, so they call their products "certificables". My advice is to research, and inform ourselves.


Here you can find a list of components that should be avoided :
http://www.icea.info/en/documentazione/ ... ne-cosmesi
Click on Environmentally Friendly and Organic Cosmetic Documentation and then on Technical Specifications, you will download a file with some attachments.


Long story short, avoid :
PEG, PPG, Paraffine, Mineral Oils Silicones, like Poliquaternium and Dimethicone (when the words end with -cone)
Components releasing FORMALDEHYDE, one of the most cancer-causing components (Triclosan and Imidazolidinyl urea, DMDM Hydantoin, Methylisothiazolinone e Methylchloroisothiazolinone, oxymethylene
Avoid ETDA, BHT, BHA (anti-oxydants used as preservatives), SLS and SLES, Mea, Tea (these are abbreviations).
Avoid Parabens (all words ending with -paraben)
Avoid all chemical filters you can find in sun-screen cremes, choose only cremes with mineral and vegetal filters, and actually avoid Nano-particles even for mineral filters.
Beware of companies using mixed filters!
The mineral filters REFLECT UV rays so that they will NOT be absorbed by the skin.
The chemical filters ABSORB UV rays, our body transforms UV rays in heath and in highly irritating by-products.


Being able to read labels is very important!



Forever Enki,
Econatura
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[S.S. 666]

I found this post in the Italian JoS Forum interesting so I translated it for information :

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HARMFUL COSMETIC COMPONENTS

It is also important to pay attention to what we use on our skin. Many ingredients used to big cosmetic companies are harmful for us and for the environment. The most embarrassing fact is that those ingredients are introduced into products for child/babies too.

Also the so-called "natural" products that you can easily find in herbal shops, are really hiding highly irritant ingredients, that on the long run may cause the skin to be more and more sensible and WEAKEN OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM.

The well known "oil" is natural, however it is polluting and cancer-causing for us. So beware the word "natural" that many companies are proposing to us. Packing is nice, thet have flowers' and plats' pictures, but in truth they contain a very small part of these wonderful extracts that are so good for us, so what they contain for the remaining part? They are also good at writing "without SLS, Colorant, mineral Oils (derived from petroleum) but then they contain aggressive and irritant emulsifying substances and moisteners.

In recent times some private companies popped up, releasing certifications for guarantee of a product safety, for us and for the environment.
In Italy we do have ICEA.
There are also smaller companies producing handmade/artisan products who do not want and cannot invest money in this kind of certifications, so they call their products "certificables". My advice is to research, and inform ourselves.

Here you can find a list of components that should be avoided :
http://www.icea.info/en/documentazione/ ... ne-cosmesi
Click on Environmentally Friendly and Organic Cosmetic Documentation and then on Technical Specifications, you will download a file with some attachments.

Long story short, avoid :
PEG, PPG, Paraffine, Mineral Oils Silicones, like Poliquaternium and Dimethicone (when the words end with -cone)
Components releasing FORMALDEHYDE, one of the most cancer-causing components (Triclosan and Imidazolidinyl urea, DMDM Hydantoin, Methylisothiazolinone e Methylchloroisothiazolinone, oxymethylene
Avoid ETDA, BHT, BHA (anti-oxydants used as preservatives), SLS and SLES, Mea, Tea (these are abbreviations).
Avoid Parabens (all words ending with -paraben)
Avoid all chemical filters you can find in sun-screen cremes, choose only cremes with mineral and vegetal filters, and actually avoid Nano-particles even for mineral filters.
Beware of companies using mixed filters!
The mineral filters REFLECT UV rays so that they will NOT be absorbed by the skin.
The chemical filters ABSORB UV rays, our body transforms UV rays in heath and in highly irritating by-products.

Being able to read labels is very important!

Forever Enki,
Econatura
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